[syslinux] syslinux.efi hangs during PXE boot

[Andrew Stuart]

On 12/20/2013 2:05 AM, Roman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to boot 64bit version of syslinux.efi through network. But
> booting is freezes with following message:
> Getting cached packets
> My IP is X.X.X.X
>
> the last file that was requested through tftp is syslinux.efi.
> I'm using precompiled binary from official syslinux-6.02.tar.gz.
>
> Here is the dump in ASCII - http://brom.in/dumps/syslinux-20131220.txt
>
> Any help is appreciated.


I am experiencing something similar to this. I don't have a tcpdump file 
available. I can however share a copy of my  tftpd log from the server.

When I didn't have ldlinux.e64 available:
Dec 27 16:40:42 scrappy in.tftpd[55787]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
syslinux.efi
Dec 27 16:40:42 scrappy in.tftpd[55787]: tftp: client does not accept 
options
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55788]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
syslinux.efi
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55789]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55790]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55791]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/boot/isolinux/ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55792]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/isolinux/ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55793]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/boot/syslinux/ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55794]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/syslinux/ldlinux.e64
Dec 27 16:40:43 scrappy in.tftpd[55795]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
/ldlinux.e64

Machine reboots at this point



With ldlinux.e64 put in root of server:
Dec 27 16:44:58 scrappy in.tftpd[55824]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
syslinux.efi
Dec 27 16:44:58 scrappy in.tftpd[55824]: tftp: client does not accept 
options
Dec 27 16:44:58 scrappy in.tftpd[55825]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
syslinux.efi
Dec 27 16:44:58 scrappy in.tftpd[55826]: RRQ from 192.168.1.133 filename 
ldlinux.e64

Machine is hard locked with the same output as the originator. hard 
reset is the only thing effective



Machine is custom, with MSI CSM-H61M-P32/W8 mainboard with onboard 
Realtek 8111E. I am using syslinux.efi / ldlinux.e64 from the 
syslinux-6.02.zip

I will see if I can get some more time early next week to poke more at 
this. For giggles, I tried a copy of snponly.efi from iPXE which fails 
while configuring the NIC Error: 040ee106

This specific hardware is known to work with the dhcpd (isc) /tftpd 
(hpa) server loading either memtest5.efi (beta) or WinPE bootmgfw.efi. 
It also works in bios mode with pxelinux 3.86 flawlessly.

dhcpd host entry:
host s_lan_20 {
         hardware ethernet d4:3d:7e:df:b2:19;
         filename "syslinux.efi";
         option tftp-server-name "192.168.1.12";
}

-Andrew